To celebrate the paperback release of Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore, HarperCollins was nice to supply me with a copy to give away to some lucky reader. Even better, in my opinion, mistakenly sent me a hardbound copy of the book. Sweet, I know.

From the inside cover:

The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.

Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ‘Cept there’s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they’re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.

Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she’s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high Skankenstein® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there’s that vampire cat Chet, who’s getting bigger and smarter—and thirstier—by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non . . .

Before you can say “OMG! WTF?” Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby’s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF’s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that’s when the fun really begins.

Bite Me is the third book in Christopher Moore’s vampire series following, Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck. I know you may be tired of vampire fiction (I know I am), but keep in mind, his vampire series started back in 1995 before this whole Twilight-thing started. I hold Christopher Moore and his books in pretty high regard. I have yet to read a book by him that I did not like.

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I’ll select a winner on March 22nd, 2011.

Teddy over at So Many Precious Books, So Little Time is having a giveaway where you can win one of five copies of Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley. I read Buckley’s Boomsday and seen the film Thank You For Smoking which is based of a book he wrote. Both of which were pretty good.

Penguin has been nice enough to give me the opportunity to give you the opportunity to win a copy of Paper Towns by John Green which is being released in paperback next week (Sept 22). In case you have forgotten, I called Paper Towns a “fantastic novel”. In fact, after re-reading what I wrote about it, I used “fantastic” twice to describe the book. Hm, I guess need a thesaurus. Anyway, It’s a great young adult book that you should check out.

Description from Powells.com:

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues and they are for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.

Since I have never done a giveaway before, I’m just going to play this by ear and copy how other blogs I follow do giveaways.

Here is how you can enter to win a copy:

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You can earn one entry for (1) and an additional entry by completing (2) for a total of two entries per person. Deadline is September 22nd, 2009 and a winner will be announce the following day. Include some way for me to contact you if you win.